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PINNED Configure maintenance flyouts
User interface settings include the option “Show maintenance notes”. How can I as onprem-backend administrator configure and switch on such flyouts to inform my users about upcoming maintenance?

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RightSize vCPU and vMem at the Same Time

For on-prem VMs, I’d like Turbo to be able to RightSize a VM’s vMem and vCPU at the same time instead of requiring a reboot for each action - which further requires 2 separate outage windows because the recommendations go away for ~4 hours when a ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 4 Delivered

Displaying Discounted Rates in Turbonomic Dashboard

From customer perspective, the savings that are presented in Turbonomic Dashboard do not reflect the actual savings as these savings are compared against the advertised rates. However, typically, customer has savings plans and discounted rates and...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Delivered

Platforum pHMC needs to collect vNIC information from HMC for each Host

When connecting a Power HMC to Instana it is currently gathering information about "Virtual Ehternet Adapters (SEA)" and "SR-IOV Local Ports". A lot of customer are using the vNIC functionality with is another type of network adapter. This needs t...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 1 Delivered

Add VERSA objects for Upstream and Downstream capacity %

Unlike VIPTELA, up to this point VERSA has not provided Upstream/Downstream capacity %. This is now available: https://docs.versa-networks.com/Management_and_Orchestration/Versa_Analytics/Versa_Analytics_Log_Collector_Log_Types/WAN_Interface_Utili...
6 months ago in SevOne / Software Defined WAN (SDWAN) 9 Delivered

Support for Spring Boot 3.x

We currently support Spring Boot versions 1.x and 2.x Spring Boot 3.0 is now available, and we need to have official support for it as customers begin to upgrade.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Java / Sensor 7 Delivered

Allow to delete wasted files from Turbonomic UI

Turbonomic recommends actions to delete wasted storage files on datastores. I want the ability to manually accept these and have the files be deleted on the vCenter datastore.

Monitoring rootless Podman process

Hello, We would like to monitor our rootless podman process Best Regards
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 8 Delivered

Alert on error logs (new logs, log rate)

It would be nice to be able to trigger alerts on different error log metrics like: - new errors (in past week, past month or similar)- error rate So we would like to be notified if new error logs pop up and if the error log rate is increasing or h...
7 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Delivered

Adaptive Threshold for Erroneous Calls - Global Smart Alerts

Currently in Global Smart Alerts, adaptive threshold option is there for Slow calls, HTTP Status Codes and throughput. Whereas, for erroneous calls only static threshold is available. Static threshold will not account for the daily erroneous call ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 5 Delivered

Support for Cassandra Monitoring for DSE 6.8 series

Currently version of Instana supports Cassandra monitoring for 6.0 and 6.7 series. Support for DSE 6.8 series will help teams to have complete Cassandra monitoring in Instana.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Sensor 3 Delivered